Fear was present in literature long before Edgar Allan Poe heard a heart beating beneath the floorboards, before H. P. Lovecraft gazed out into the cosmos, or before Stephen King turned an empty...
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian writer Anne Carson, recognized for a body of work that breaks with traditional forms of writing and combines poetry, essays, fiction,...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
Some books sound like they just shouldn't work, and those have been the focus of this month’s book selection over at Five Books For. A boy stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger? It's an...
Why is somebody only considered to have truly read a book if they’ve read it with their eyes, on paper? This is an argument that you’d think would have run its course by now, but apparently it...
Laura Jansen, University of Bristol For over four decades, Anne Carson has been quietly redrawing the map of contemporary literature. Poet, translator, classicist, essayist, performer and visual...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read /...
This month’s reading picks focus on the habits that support learning and the small changes that can make getting back into a routine a little easier, just as a new school year has started in many...
Since starting this column I’ve seen some really great book adaptations, but as a rule of thumb I usually find the books to be (even just marginally) better than their film or TV adaptations. Films...
What happens when the person you thought you would spend the rest of your life with drops an unexpected bombshell that brings everything to an end? In her new book, Hungry Love, Tomiko Diaz explores...
